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U.S. National Commission for UNESCO Laura W. Bush Traveling Fellowship
http://www.state.gov/p/io/unesco/103476.htm

This fellowship will help fund a proposal designed by the applicant--a U.S. undergraduate or graduate student between the ages of 18-25--to conduct brief work in a foreign country related to the mandate of UNESCO – using education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and/or communication and information to build strong ties among nations. Applicants will conduct their work from the period between September 2008 and December 2008.

Application Schedule:

June 26 -- U.S. National Commission for UNESCO opens call for applications

August 5, 5 p.m. EST -- Deadline for proposals to be received

Week of August 19 --Subcommittee meeting to produce initial top candidates and conduct phone interviews, as needed

Week of Auguest 25 -- Closed Federal Advisory Committee Act call to determine recommendations of final top candidate and alternates

By August 31 -- Announcement of recipent (s) by Executive Director of U.S. National Commission for UNESCO

Early 2009 -- Recipient(s) provides summary report of experiences

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS)
http://www.southasia.wisc.edu/flas/index.html
FLAS fellowships are designed to support graduate students who are studying South Asian languages and area studies courses. Languages offered during the academic year: Hindi, Persian (in relation to Pakistan and/or Afghanistan), Telugu, Tibetan (modern spoken), and Urdu. Languages offered during the summer: Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan, Urdu.
A FLAS Fellowship recipient is required to:

1) enroll in a course of modern language study consistent with his/her application, and

2) to enroll in a non-language course (“area studies course”) with significant South Asia content for both the Fall and Spring Semesters. The FLAS Coordinator will make initial determinations on the appropriateness of area studies courses. If necessary, further determinations on the appropriateness of area studies courses will be made by the FLAS Selection Committee.

Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies (GPTS)
http://www.vjc.uni-hd.de/

The Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies (GPTS) is part of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows" at the University of Heidelberg. The objective of the Cluster is to examine processes of cultural exchange with a strong focus on interdisciplinary research. The Cluster challenges the master narrative of asymmetrical Western domination along with its historical explanation, its methodology and the resulting structures of humanities and social science research. For the winter term 2008/2009 the GPTS offers 3 short-term (3 month) scholarships for Asian PhD/Doctoral students

The GPTS is looking for applicants with an excellent academic background. Selected students will take part in the regular programme of the GPTS and contribute actively to it. The scholarships are awarded for 3 months. Scholarship holders are expected to be in Heidelberg between October 2008 and February 2009. The short-term scholarship includes travel expenses to Heidelberg and back home, and a monthly stipend of 1000- ?. Currently contributors to the Cluster work in the fields of Anthropology, Archeology, Art History (European and East Asian), South and East Asian Studies, Assyriology, Cultural Studies, English Philology, Ethnology, Geography, History, Indology, Islamic Studies, Musicology, Philosophy, Political Science, Public Health, Religious Studies, Sinology, Sociology and others. Reflecting the interdisciplinary approach of the Cluster, the GSTS invites Asian doctoral students from these as well as other disciplines from the humanities and social sciences to apply.

Candidates submit their applications including a letter of intention (400 words maximum), a CV, and a project proposal (1000 words) related to the major themes and topics of the Cluster ( http://www.vjc.uni-hd.de/) to the online application system. Electronic submission of the application is mandatory.

Deadline for application is August 31st, 2008.

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